5/30/10 - 295lbs

The topic of this week's blog is....OMG!!!

OMG I have followers!! How cool is that?

OMG I came home last Wednesday to find a Vita-Mix on my front porch! Muchas, muchas gracias to my bro-in-law Bill. It came with a note that simply said, "Been following your blog, keep up the good work." Bill is always so generous, but this was above and beyond generous. I was crying when I opened the box. And I have seriously used it every single day since it came.

OMG I've lost 15 lbs in a month!! I was going to take a picture, but the only full-length mirror I have access to is in the locker room at the gym and I got some dirty looks from the ladies who were changing their clothes when I pulled out my camera phone. I don't think 15lbs has made that much impact on my looks yet anyway.

The great thing is that I have lost 15lbs in a month without being absolutely perfect. I'm living what I call an 80-10-10 lifestyle. I stole that from a lady in Arbonne who's name I cannot remember right now, and I will explain why I'm listening to people from Arbonne in a minute. So 80% of the time I am eating vegetarian, I'm not going to insult the vegans of the world by saying I am "trying" to be vegan. "Do or do not...there is no try," is what all my vegan Yodas would say. Then 10% of the time I allow myself to slip by eating cheese here and there, maybe even meat from time to time. The last 10% is all out crazy, eating whatever I want. In the past 24 days I have had about six "slip ups". Now if you break that down into meals...24 days since the last time I weighed-in times 3 meals a day equals 72 meals...six "slip ups" is less than 10% and not even close to 20%. YAY ME!

OK, why am I getting eating advice from Arbonne Consultants? Because I am one! As of May 27th I am officially selling Arbonne. Not only do they have great skin and body care that is all flower and plant based, but they also have a line of nutritional shakes and supplements. And everything they sell is certified vegan! I'll be having little classes and parties every week to educate my friends about the nutritional line and pamper them with all the spa products, so read your emails and texts and those pesky postcards you are getting from me.

Last but not least...The Cure. This is going to be especially interesting to all you Ranch-o-philes (people with a compulsion for ranch). Per the advice of Joel Fuhrman, M.D. in his book Eat to Live I have started putting a squeeze of lemon and just an iddy-biddy sprinkling of feta and an iddy-biddy sprinkling of olive oil on my salads and it is delicious. I can't wait to eat salads this way, its unbelievable. So, following Dr. Fuhrman's book is The Cure to a life-long addiction to ranch dressing.

Last little tip....flax seed + water + mustard + soy sauce + vitamix = elmer's glue. It was supposed to be a salad dressing, but that is not what happened.